
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Osage County
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
| Subject | Number | Percent | Subject | Number | Percent | |
| SCHOOL ENROLLMENT | NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH | |||||
| Population 3 years and over | Total poplulation | 13,062 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,316 | 100.0 | Native | 13,003 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 124 | 3.7 | Born in United States | 12,935 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 169 | 5.1 | State of residence | 11,442 | 87.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,639 | 49.4 | Different state | 1,493 | 11.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 853 | 25.7 | Born outside United States | 68 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 531 | 16.0 | Foreign born | 59 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 9 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 38 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 8,375 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 21 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,273 | 15.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 808 | 9.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,690 | 44.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 59 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,238 | 14.8 | Europe | 24 | 40.7 | |
| Associate degree | 498 | 5.9 | Asia | 15 | 25.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 587 | 7.0 | Africa | 4 | 6.8 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 281 | 3.4 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 11 | 18.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 75.2 | (X) | Northern America | 5 | 8.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 12,202 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 10,234 | 100.0 | English only | 11,834 | 97.0 | |
| Never married | 2,366 | 23.1 | Language other than English | 368 | 3.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,362 | 62.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 94 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 100 | 1.0 | Spanish | 94 | 0.8 | |
| Widowed | 799 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 665 | 6.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 255 | 2.1 | |
| Divorced | 607 | 5.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 60 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 304 | 3.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 13,062 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 185 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,963 | 91.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 104 | 56.2 | Arab | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 21 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 10 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 9,611 | 100.0 | Dutch | 94 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,267 | 13.2 | English | 649 | 5.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 521 | 4.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 21 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 6,859 | 52.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,206 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 221 | 6.9 | Hungarian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,050 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,151 | 8.8 | |
| With a disability | 1,188 | 16.9 | Italian | 132 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 65.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 5,862 | 83.1 | Norwegian | 36 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 84.8 | (X) | Polish | 132 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,772 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 679 | 38.3 | Russian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 90 | 0.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 41 | 0.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 12,202 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,291 | 67.9 | Swedish | 43 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,860 | 31.6 | Swiss | 37 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 2,004 | 16.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,856 | 15.2 | United States or American | 1,336 | 10.2 | |
| Same state | 1,452 | 11.9 | Welsh | 63 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 404 | 3.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 51 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 704 | 5.4 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. | ||||||
| ¹ The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic. | ||||||
| Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

